TITLE: An Empty Room (The Observer)
NAME: Fatima Cvrckova
COUNTRY: Czech Republic
EMAIL: fatima@natur.cuni.cz
TOPIC: Absence
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fc_room.jpg
ZIPFILE: fc_room.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    nothing special - just pure PoVRay

RENDER TIME: 
    approx. 2 minutes, even at a larger resolution

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-2.66 GHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


At the first glance, this is just an empty room, with a deserted desk, a
suspiciously clean pipe and ashtray, a few books ... you can spend ages making
up a story and wondering whether everyone and everything is gone, or not
arrived yet.
At the second glance - where is the observer who should see him- or herself
reflected in the window???

The file has been actually sitting on my drive for more than a year. I developed
it while learning the basics of the PoV Ray scene language, and never really
finished it (the study was originally meant to be quite cluttered). Also, one
of the reasons why I dropped it was the conspicuous absence of the observer
(this should have been a realistic image!). Then, suddenly, I browsed to the
IRTC site after a while - and realized that I might have just hit the current
topic!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Nothing really exciting technically - just an excercise in the PoVRAy scene
language. It did, after all, begin as a training project.

